2 PETER 2:9 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 1
“The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:”
Then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment — the principle of divine discrimination extends eschatologically: the righteous experience rescue while the unrighteous experience retribution. To keep under punishment (tēreō kolasis) suggests both present restraint and ultimate condemnation. The temporal structure (trials now, judgment then) acknowledges suffering's reality within the present age.
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